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What I Tell Myself When I Don’t Feel Like Exercising
A valuable lesson from a paratrooper friend.
 • Rabbi Shmuel Chaim Naiman
I’ve Never Joined a Gym
Because running, walking, and hiking are enough.
 • Rabbi Shmuel Chaim Naiman
How to Make Running Part of Your Life
The Healthy Jew’s Guide to Running Part 2
 • Rabbi Shmuel Chaim Naiman
What Matters in Running - Speed, Distance, or Time?
The Healthy Jew's Guide to Running - Part 1
 • Rabbi Shmuel Chaim Naiman
What Climbing Down a Mountain Taught Me
Strength is also the work of holding back, saying yes and no together.
 • Rabbi Shmuel Chaim Naiman
Missiles and Mountains Aren’t So Different
How to stay steady when fear rises—under fire or on the trail.
 • Rabbi Shmuel Chaim Naiman
Why Didn’t God Put Israel Next to Egypt?
Because freedom is a journey through a desert, not flipping a switch.
 • Rabbi Shmuel Chaim Naiman
The Soles of My Old Hiking Shoes
Comparing them to my new ones showed me how far we've come along together
 • Rabbi Shmuel Chaim Naiman
REPLAY! Move - "From Here to There"
In yesterday's online workshop, we unpacked Healthy Jew exercise.
 • Rabbi Shmuel Chaim Naiman
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Stretching for Back Pain
Responding to one Healthy Jew's question.
 • Rabbi Shmuel Chaim Naiman
Trudging
Learning from our family's recent happy little crisis.
 • Rabbi Shmuel Chaim Naiman
Jump in the Puddles
Because the world is cold and wet today.
 • Rabbi Shmuel Chaim Naiman
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